China Upholds Death Sentence for Robert Lloyd Schellenberg.

China Upholds Death Sentence for Robert Lloyd Schellenberg.
A lower court in China had ruled that Mr.
Schellenberg worked with others to smuggle 490 pounds of methamphetamines.
His lawyers had warned him that an appeal of his 2018 sentence could result in harsher punishment.
Still, the swiftness of his 2019 retrial stunned observers, with human rights advocates and legal experts saying that the timing sent a strong signal that his case was now a political matter.
The quick retrial and death sentence aroused particular alarm in Canada, which abolished the death penalty decades ago.
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The rejection of Mr.
Schellenberg’s appeal on Tuesday had been a near certainty.
The High People’s Court of Liaoning Province, in northeastern China, said in a statement on Tuesday that “the facts found in the first instance were clear, the evidence was reliable and sufficient, the conviction was accurate, the sentence was appropriate, and the trial procedures were legal.”

His case will be reviewed by China’s highest court, the Supreme People’s Court, which is standard procedure for death-penalty cases.